Celtics-Lakers a TV blockbuster

og="http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Not since Michael Jordan's final NBA championship shot has an NBA game done better TV numbers than the Boston-Lakers Game 7 did on Thursday.

ABC announced that Game 7 attracted over 28 million viewers and pulled a 15.6 rating. That's the most since Chicago-Utah Game 6 in 1998.

The series pulled 45 percent more viewers than the previous 7-gamer, which was San Antonio-Detroit in 2005.

Game 7 was ABC's highest-rated show of any kind since the Academy Awards.

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